Last year the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Alabama must consider the arguments in a lawsuit about failures of the state’s unemployment system during the pandemic. This week an Alabama judge threw out the ...

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Alabama dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 1,807 ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - State leaders officially launched Alabama’s Department of Workforce on the Capitol steps Thursday morning. The new department is being hailed as a major consolidation of ...

MOBILE, Alabama — A Mobile man with a lengthy criminal record last week became the first of a group of people who cheated Alabama's unemployment insurance fund to go to prison. While others prosecuted ...

Thousands of furloughed federal workers are trying to navigate the unemployment system, in a sharp increase that is still a fraction of the 670,000 furloughed during the shutdown.